Sunday, December 30, 2012

Internet Fights

Alright, so
to me, there is nothing more entertaining than watching people fight or argue
on the internet. The battlegrounds where I tend to see these are places like Facebook
(obviously) and the comment sections on YouTube videos (and the fights almost
always have nothing to do with the video). I’m sure there are fights on other
sites. YouTube and Facebook are just the ones that I visit most.

On the
Internet, of what I’ve observed, people like to fight over religion more than
anything else. Multiple times I’ve been on YouTube watching a movie trailer or
whatever, and then I’d scroll down to the comment section and BAM I’d be
watching a Christians vs. Atheists war. I guess people just really like to
fight for what they believe in. Which isn’t a bad thing, in my opinion. But I
think that people shouldn’t thrust their beliefs onto others. That probably
pisses me off more than anything else. When people are like, “Oh, I see that
you choose not to believe in god. That’s cute. You are wrong to do that because
I say so”. That upsets me when I see things like that. Who cares what other
people believe? Don’t worry about trying to CONVERT them. Yeah.

Also, people
can be incredibly vicious when fighting on the internet. No matter how bold or
confident someone is in real life, they always seem to be able to be nasty when
fighting on the internet. I guess this is because people are only represented
by a username (assuming you’re on YouTube or some other anonymous site). They
have nothing to show or to be ashamed of other than a username. No one can use
what you have ever done because they don’t know anything about you, except for
what you might have said in a past comment. It’s like being reborn, to put it
lightly, which makes people bold and fearless.

Well, sorry to end my share of the Holidailies on a sour note, but today I
was just stumped on what topic to write about, and this was the first good
thing that came to me. This was fun. Thank you.